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Gemini 4 Argonvs
Seed1.8
Gemini 4 Argon and Seed1.8 do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Seed1.8 is 5.3x cheaper per token.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
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Cheaper per token
Seed1.8
5.3x cheaper, input + output
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Providers
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Google · ByteDance Seed
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
textvisionvideo
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 12 only Gemini 4 Argon · 16 only Seed1.8| Benchmark | Gemini 4 Argon | Seed1.8 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 12 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1525.2 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 82.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench | 51.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CWE-bench v1 | 68% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 77.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | 55% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | 0.0757 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1679.5 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LVBench | 91.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 53.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | 57.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 13718.16 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Seed1.8 reports · 16 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 72.9% ↗ | — | — |
| MMLU-Pro | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME-25 | not reported | 94.3% ↗ | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | not reported | 67.9% ↗ | — | — |
| BFCL-v4 | not reported | 57.2% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp-en | not reported | 67.6% ↗ | — | — |
| GPQA-Diamond | not reported | 83.8% ↗ | — | — |
| HLE (text-only, agentic search) | not reported | 40.9% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench(v6) | not reported | 79.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MM-BrowseComp | not reported | 46.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Multi-SWE-Bench | not reported | 42% ↗ | — | — |
| MultiChallenge | not reported | 66.7% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified (XLANG) | not reported | 61.9% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal Bench 2.0 | not reported | 45.2% ↗ | — | — |
| WideSearch | not reported | 63.8% ↗ | — | — |
| τ2-Bench | not reported | 72% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Gemini 4 Argon minus Seed1.8 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Gemini 4 Argon | Seed1.8 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | — | 256K tokens | — |
| Max output | 1M tokens | 64K tokens | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $0.25 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.1 ↗ | $0.05 ↗ | Seed1.8 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $2.25 | Seed1.8 |
| Modalities | text · vision · video | text · vision · video | Tie |
| Released | 2026-09-30 | 2025-12-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 12 | 16 | — |
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